Cool+Tools+-+Free+Interactive+Websites

__**Accessibility**__
 * Word Talk is a free text to speech plug-in for Microsoft Word.

__**Assessment**__


 * **RubiStar** is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
 * **80 + Google Forms for the Classroom** Google Forms can be used to assess students and score digital portfolios and rubrics.
 * **Hot Potatoes** is a suite of six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.
 * **Self Checker** is an online assessment tool for students and teachers. You can set up questions for the students to answer. Other features are available.
 * ClassMarker allows you to create your own tests and quizzes to be taken online and graded instantly . There is a free version which is gives you access to some of the features. Check the pricing page for more information.

__**Bookmarking Utilities**__


 * Diigois a web-based bookmarking tool that lets you access your bookmarks from anywhere, anytime, from just about any device.
 *  Evernote is a great tool for teachers and students to capture notes, save research, collaborate on projects, snap photos of whiteboards, record audio and more. Everything you add to your account is automatically synced and made available on all the computers, phones and tablets you use.
 * Portaportalallows you to save your favorite websites and access them from any computer with Internet access.

**__Digital Media - Animation, Images, Video, and Audio__**
 * Animoto will turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy!
 * Audacityis an Open Source software for recording and editing sounds.
 * Awesome Clipart for Educators has free clipart, fonts, and more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bitstrips]lets you create comics for any subject.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Blabberize - upload a picture and make it talk.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Glogsterallows you to create an interactive poster with images, music, video, and text.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Make Beliefs Comix - create your own comic strip.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Me and My Movie is an online filmmaking community where you can learn how to make your own films and more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Museum Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Pandora lets you listen to your favorite music online.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Picmonkeyis an easy to use photo editing program that allows you to save your images to your computer. Premium features are free at this time. Eventually, there will be a charge for the premium features.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Picnikis another easy to use photo editing program that allows you to save your images to your computer. **Note**: Picnik is closing on April 19th. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It is moving its most popular editing tools and effects to Google+.
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pics4Learning is a copyright friendly library for teachers and students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sam Animation is software that allows students to create stop action movies. The program was developed at Tufts University Center for Engineering and Education Outreach.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tagexdoturns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Timeline Maker lets you generate timeline, select number of events and enter each event date and description. You can also print the timeline.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Voki allows you to create a speaking avatar and use it as an effective teaching tool.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wikimedia Commons is a database of [|freely usable]media files to which [|anyone can contribute.]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wildlife Filmmaker provides the tools to create a video about animals using drag and drop technology at this site.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__**File Sharing**__
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Dropboxis a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

__**<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Graphic Organizers **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Bubbl.Us is a free online brainstorming tool.
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ExploraTree is a free online library of graphic organizers.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Language Arts **__
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif;">Free Rice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme. for each answer that you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to help end hunger.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math **__
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Create a Graph has five different graphs and charts to choose from. The site includes a tutorial for the program.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">National Library of Virtual Manipulatives has math activities for grades PreK-12.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__**Presentation Tools**__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Hello Slide -Simply //type//the speech for each slide, instead of recording it, and HelloSlide automagically generates the audio. It gives more exposure to your presentations, making them searchable, editable, and available in 20 different languages.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Prezi]is an engaging presentation tool that allows you to collaboratively produce a presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">SlideRocket provides presentation software that helps create and share presentation online.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Voice Thread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show using images, documents, and video.

__**<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Research and Source Citation **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Bib Me is t he fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Easy Bib is a free bibliography and citation maker.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">YouTube Alternatives has links to several resources.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tiny URL shortens long website addresses making them easier to cite and to share with others.